Simon, who now runs Cressrelles, remembers his father describing the Lord of the Rings author as someone with “incredible wit and humour, but the most atrocious man at meeting deadlines.”…
I was also deeply impressed by the ethos of the collection’s publisher, Tramp Press, one of a number of indie houses making strides in Ireland. Their submission window is open now, so if you live outside North America and are looking for somewhere to place work, I would recommend checkin...
I was also deeply impressed by the ethos of the collection’s publisher, Tramp Press, one of a number of indie houses making strides in Ireland. Their submission window is open now, so if you live outside North America and are looking for somewhere to place work, I would recommend checkin...
Last photo is me after recording some of the audiobook. I didn’t get to narrate my last one (I was told I failed the audition). My new publisher assured me from the start that I’d get to record for this one. Very glad and grateful and honored to be reading my book for you. ...
. While focusing mainly on the workplace, Sutton has chapters on the various options when it comes to dealing with that person who drives you crazy – from leaving to reframing to dishing it right back to them – and the possible outcomes of each strategy. I checked this out from the ...
MS is surely invoking this tradition, by setting the North Pole as the place where the Creature, at the end of the story, is drawn. Finally, we enter the realm of mythology. The subtitle of Frankenstein is “The Modern Prometheus”. Prometheus, defying the other gods, steals fire from th...
The Silent Sea:A misty, boggy place, cluttered with remote islands. Beyond this insufferable barrier lies the Hinterlands. Little is known about the fair-skinned peoples that live in the dark forests of the Hinterlands, except for the few that immigrate south to the sunnier parts of the conti...
The next time someone takes a long shower or bath, see what the mirror does.What happenedThe half of the mirror covered with glycerin will not get foggy. That is because specks (微粒) of dust on the surface of the glass give the tiny water droplets a place to form. The glass cleaner...
ANNE:Okay. So it sounds like you were interested in trying some classics. But reading Sherlock Holmes with a gap in vocabulary between 2022 Iowa in Sherlock Holmes' time and place, that just didn't work. NOA:Yeah. ANNE:Okay. You also mentioned that you have friends you trade book recomme...
Zeyn Joukhadar's writing is beautiful, gentle and symbolic, and the story truly is heart-wrenching, as it really makes you feel what it is like to be uncomfortable in your own body and unable to find a place where you can be yourself, more than any other LGBTQ+ or immigrant book I'...